Glossary G

Glossary G

Genital stage refers to a period of psychosexual development coinciding with the resurfacing of sexual energy just prior to puberty.

Genital wart refers to wart-like growth on the genitals. Genital wart is also called venereal wart, condylomata, or papilloma.

Genocide refers to the annihilation or attempted annihilation of an entire race of people. Genocide is also defined as an attempt to systematically eliminate an ethnic group through banishment or murder.

Genogram is defined as an informal assessment tool that examines the family 's functioning over a number of generations. It usually includes such items as dates of birth and death, names, major relationships, scapegoats, identified patient, mental illness, disabilities, cultural or ethnic issues, physical diseases, affairs, abortions, and stillbirths. Moreover, Genogram refers to a method of charting a family's relationship system. It is essentially a family tree in which ages, sex, marriage dates, and similar information may be diagrammed.

Genome refers to the complete set of instructions for "building" all the cells that make up an organism.

Genomic imprinting is also known as Parental imprinting - when a child receives two (2) sets of chromosomes, one set from the mother, and the other from the father. The expression of the genes in each set is in accordance with the parent of origin. If the child receives both sets of chromosomes from the same parent, there will be a loss of expression of the genes of the other parent. This abnormal imprinting has been associated with several neurodevelopmental disorders.

Genotype refers to the genetic constitution (the genome ) of a cell, an individual or an organism. Also, Genotype refers to the genetic form or constitution of a person as determined b

Genotype - environment effects refers to Scarr and McCartney's theory that proposed that one's Genotype (Genetic constitution) influences which environments a person encounters and the type of experiences a person has, or that genes drive experience. Three (3) types of genotype-environment effects are proposed: passive, evocative, and active.